Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job .
2 Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas .
3 Every night , he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs , to restaurants and to major pop concerts .
4 His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too .
5 And when we 'd gone along fifteen kilometres we 'd gone up by four point eight metres .
6 That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee
7 At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods .
8 The group decided to go back to other dreams , other schools like some of those discussed in the earlier chapters of this book .
9 When he started going out with other women , she refused him sex .
10 Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew .
11 I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil .
12 And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services .
13 But of course Robert was right and the rider did go on to greater things .
14 After all , he did go back to that church , presumably to ask his God for further and better instructions . ’
15 They were chiefly used by women but also by doctors and clergymen who had to go out in all weathers .
16 At the same time they had on Mondays and Tuesday we used to sell weekly tickets , so they had to go out in another box on Mondays and Tuesdays .
17 And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock .
18 I thought you had to go off to another room , to a play room to play in the sand ?
19 Both their families were pleased about their plans to marry in September , but John had to go back before any details were discussed .
20 Well that 's what I was wondering that 's why I said go out into fresh air , in the hopes that they might shake off the bug I do n't think it works like that , do you ?
21 Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer .
22 And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man .
23 It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long .
24 Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’
25 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
26 On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) .
27 Whatever had gone on in those weeks apart , whatever course of action their friends had counselled , a minor transformation had occurred .
28 Secondly , the bird could copy what another more experienced bird had done ; the process of selecting the actions best adapted to the environment had gone on in previous generations and been transmitted socially .
29 It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support .
30 After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it .
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